A Brief History of School of Medicine

The School of Medicine was established in 1973, then Faculty of Medicine to Medicine to run a 6 year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB.BS) full-time degree programme. The first Dean of the School was Professor T. Bell-Osagie. He was Dean from 1973-1975. With the exit of Professor T. Belo-Osagie, Professor K. Diete-Koki became the Dean of the School. Since then, the School has had various Deans and Heads of Departmentsin the last 30years. The immediate past Dean of the School was Prof. Dr.(med.) P.O. Abiodun, MD, FAF Paed, FWACP, FMCPaed. The present Dean of the School of Medicine is Professor A.O. Isah MB.BS, FMCP, FWACP, MD.

The School of Medicine turned out its first set of graduates numbering 18 in 1975/76 session. The number has grown tremendously over the years and at times exceeding 200.

The basic infrastrucure housing the school offices was formerly the College building located in the University of Benin teaching Hospital Premises. there has been movement of the School offices with the completion of the new College Building with the sole objective of providing standard office accomodation for all academic staff.

Presently the School of Medicine is made up of 14(fourteen) Departments with deifferent specialized Heads of Departments.

The Departments of the School are:

• Department of Anaesthesiology
• Department of Child Health
• Department of Haematology
• Department of Chemical Pathology
• Department of Community Health
• Department of Surgery
• Department of Radiology
• Department of Ophthalmology
• Department of Obsterics & Gynaecology
• Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology
• Department of Morbid Anatomy
• Department of Mental Health
• Department of Medicine
• Department of Anatomy
• Department of Medical Microbiology